Laundry device



E. T. BASKIN.

LAUNDRY DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED ocT, 27,-1920.

Patented Au WITNESS.-

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" EDWIN T. BAsK n, on Kansas err urssocni.

LAUNDRY DEVICE.

I Application filed October 27, 1920. SerialNo. {$19,912.

new and useful Improvement in Laundry Devices, of which the following isa specification. 7

My invention relatesto improvements in laundry devices. a

The object of my invention is to provide a laundry device which issimple in construction, cheap to make, durable, not liable to get out oforder, and with which clothes may be quickly and thoroughly cleansed andrinsed and'with a minimum amount of labor.

My invention provides further a novel clothes pounder.

My invention provides still further a clothes pounder having areversible handle and perforate body combined with novel means forbracing the handle and guarding against the clothes clogging theperforations in the body.

The novel features of my invention are hereinafter fully described andclaimed.

In the accompanyingdrawing which illustrates the preferred embodiment ofmy invention,

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of my improved laundry device.

Fig. 2 is a bottom view of the clothes pounder.

Fig. 3 is across section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2. i

F 4 and Fig. 5 are respectively plan views of the two guard members,shown de tached.

Fig. 6is a vertical sectional view of the laundry device with the bodyshown in a position the reverse of that shown in Figs. 1 and 3. i

Fig. 7 is a plan view of a pounder embodying my improvements shownfitted in a. circular clothes receptacle.

Similar reference characters designate similar parts'in the differentviews.

Referring particularly tothe first six figures, l designates anvordinary wash boiler of the usual oblong form.

2 designates the pounder body which is preferably of concave-convex formand which also is preferably substantially fitted in and verticallyreciprocative in the boiler Specification of Letters Batent; P fljgntedAug, 15,

l. The body 2 is' provided with openings or perforations 3thro ugh whichthe water in the boiler is forced when the body is re-.

ciprocated. a Centrally mounted in the body is a vertireceivethereinthe'lower end of a handle 5 c0 cal member comprising, preferably, asocket. member 4 either end'of which is adapted to which'may be providedwith. two transverse holes 6 and 7 either of which is adapted to receivetherethrough a bolt 8 which is also adapted to be extended through atransverse hole provided in the socket member 4 at the outer side of theconvex side of the body 2. The bolt 8 is provided with a nut 9 arrangedto bear against the socketmember 4 for releasably securing the 'bolt inits operative position in the handle and socket member.

For securely anchoring the socket member 4 to the body-2,- and also forkeeping the clothes from clogging the perforations .3 in the body, Iprovide a suitable guard which may comprise two crossed brace members 10and 11 the ends of which are attached to the body 2 at the edge thereof.The members 10 and 11 each encircle the inner end of the socket memberto which the members are attached in any suitable manner, as bysoldering. The members 10 and 11 may be flat strips, as shown, eachhaving a central hole through which the socket member is inserted.

In the operation of my invention, the

body 2 is preferably first/mounted in the boiler 1 with the convex sideup, as shown in Fig. 1., in which position, the handle 5 is mounted inthe socket member 4 with the bolt 8 in the hole 6. When the handle andbody 2 are vertically reciprocated in the boiler the clothes will becompressed adjacent to the outer edges of the body and the water will beforced outwardly through the perforations 3 as the body '2 movesdownserted into the other end of the socket menu-- ber l, as shown inFig. 6, the bolt 8. being placed in the hole .7 of the handle. The body2 will now be reversed in position with wardly., By this manner of useof the respect to the handle 5. The body 2 is then,

.while in this reverse position, inserted into theboiler l andreciproeated' by means of the handle The convex side of the body 2 beingnow on the under side and next to erence to the form shown in the otherfigures, both in construction and mode of operation. p

I do not limit my invention to the structures shown and described, asmany modifications, within the scope of the appended claim, may be madeWithout departing from the spirit of my invention.

hat I claim is In a laundry device, a clothes pounder having a perforateconcavo-convex body, a socket member attached at one end to said body, aguard attached to the body and extending across the concave side of thebody and attached to and serving as a brace for the other end of thesocket member, and a handle adapted to be inserted into either end ofthe socket member and having means for being releasably attached to thesocket member, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

EDWIN T. BASKIN.

